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A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks .
Boreas Nunatak (coordinates: 71°18′S 3°57′W) is a 220-metre-high (720 ft) nunatak, nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Passat Nunatak at the mouth of Schytt Glacier in Queen Maud Land. It was discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher , and named after Boreas , one of the Dornier flying ...
Kirkjufell contains volcanic rock but is not itself a volcano.It is a nunatak, a mountain that protruded above the glaciers surrounding it during the Ice Age, and before that was part of what was once the area's strata.
A conical nunatak 60 metres (200 ft) high which stands close north of Sheppard Point, the north side of the entrance to Hope Bay. This area was first explored by a party of the SwedAE 1901-04. The nunatak was charted in 1945 by the FIDS, and named by them for its association with Sheppard Point. [11]
A nunatak is a type of glacial refugium located on the snow-free, exposed peaks of mountains, which lie above the ice sheet during glaciations. [3] The identification of ‘diversity hotspots’ in areas that should have been migration regions during major glacial episodes is evidence for nunatak glacial refugia. [ 14 ]
Nunatarsuaq is one of several nunataks in the Upernavik Archipelago, and one of the few named nunataks in Tasiusaq Bay.To the north, it is bounded by Qaaneq fjord, the innermost waterway of Kangerlussuaq Icefjord.
Svarthamaren Mountain is a prominent ice-free mountain or large nunatak on the east side of the mouth of Vestreskorve Glacier in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped from surveys and aerial photographs by the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named Svarthamaren ("black cliff").
A somewhat isolated nunatak, situated 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) west-northwest of Doescher Nunatak and 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) north-northwest of Mount Weihaupt. Named by US-ACAN after Wilfred I. Doe, United States Navy, hospital corpsman with the McMurdo Station winter party, 1967.